Voivodeship Classification in Accordance with the Directions of Agricultural and Forest Lands Repurposement

Spatial policy-making and implementation at the national and regional levels require, among others, long-term monitoring of socio-economic processes in the spatial and statistical dimension. The paper focuses on the issue of land-use changes for non-agricultural and non-forest purposes in individual provinces (called voivodeships). A special emphasis was put on the intensity and direction of the transformation processes. In order to compile the results in the form of a comparative analysis, a multi-indicator method was developed with the use of the data provided by Local Data Bank for the years 2003-2017. The results illustrate both variations and similarities in the spatial development between the analyzed voivodeships.